#sinful

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it. ↗

— Walter Lang

#sex #sin #sinful

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. ↗

— Walter Lang

#human #itself #may #our #pride

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ↗

— Frank Miller

#characters #defined #environment #having #how

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#establish #justice #politics #sad #sinful

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#compel #funds #furnish #ideas #man

I can say that I have fallen deeper in love with you today, knowing the sort of man you are. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#sinful #wallingford #love

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#god #humility #judge #judged #must

Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?” He smiled, kissed her navel before glancing up at her. “Barbaric thoughts.” “You’re very pleased with yourself, aren’t you?” He laughed and slid up the length of her body. “I am. It’s such a powerful visual to know that my seed is responsible for the life within you and the incredibly arousing changes in your body. “And, I, of course, have nothing to do with it?” “Jane,” he whispered, “let me have my moment of male glory. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#jane #matthew #sinful-epilogue #change

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#area #christian #christian life #first #inward